We’re Online: Now We Start

The Kal’s Korner Online web site has a dedicated area for discussions. You can register to use it for FREE, and post any messages that you wish. Depending on the time and day, you can even interact directly with Kal Korff and ask him questions.

Expresially for You: answers for readers about the new Kal's Korner Online Web site | foto: Profimedia.cz

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There is only ONE rule to remember when posting messages for everyone else to read: always be civil and polite! Try to behave towards people like you would want them to behave towards you.

The web address is: kalskorner.expresdenik.cz.

Now that the Kal’s Korner Online Web site is finally on the Internet with new content being added each day, here are some answers to many of the questions that you have been asking about it.

Q: "There seems to be a lot going on with your English page right now. Is the focus of it still OK?"

A: Yes! In fact, “the problem” is that we are way too busy and a bit too successful. We keep growing faster than we thought we needed to, and more and more people are contacting us to become our partners.

Since we wish to work with as many people as possible to try and do some great things together, this has been a very big challenge.

During these past few weeks, we have overseen the building of the new web site, set some key computing architecture principles in motion; agreed on entire sections of content, and we also keep adding new partners.

We are also working on a summit meeting for schools so we can work with them to try and help, and most importantly, the task now begins to populate this web site with great content. We must empower people to do this, it is an effort that must involve lots of people.

As we grow and expand, we are going to have some “growing pains” as they say. It is inevitable, but what counts is moving in the right direction, and doing the right things.

Q: "You have said many times that past issues of Kal’s Korner will be online. Where are they?"

A: Past issues of Kal’s Korner are now online here and exclusively at iDnes. Just go to www.idnes.cz and type in either Kal’s Korner or “Korff” in the search field and you’ll be able to see them. The web address is: http://zpravy.idnes.cz/studium.aspx?klic=89016&o=0.

While this web address is not exactly the easiest to remember, if you go to the Kal’s Korner Online web site and click on the Archives button on the Home Page, it will take you to this same place.

This means that different editions of Kal’s Korner now appear each day.

Q: "Is there a place where we can actually chat or TALK to you online or have a conversation?"

A: Yes, starting THIS week! Just go to the Kal’s Korner Online remote and press the “Discuss” button. There’s a forum area where you can choose different subjects.

Please note that this is the ONLY online forum that I participate in, unless by special arrangement.

12 Unusual Facts

1. Each day, 41% of all women use hand cream three times.
2. A kiss burns 26 calories every minute.
3. During World War II, condoms were used widely to cover up the ends of the barrels of rifles in order to keep them from getting wet or soaked with water.
4. A natural consequence of dieting is bad breath. The reason is basic physics: with the consumption of less food, your mouth produces less saliva to keep bad breath from forming.
5. Every day, more paper money is printed by the Parker Brother’s Company, makers of the game Monopoly, than there is real money printed by the U.S. government!
6. Almonds are actually members of the Peach family of fruit.
7. The longest time that science has ever observed a chicken flying was for just 13 seconds.
8. An Ostrich’s eye is actually bigger than its brain!
9. Tigers have both striped skin and striped fur.
10. Please do NOT put any of your pearls in vinegar. They will melt!
11. Most people do not know that it takes about 18 hours for the average snail to travel a single kilometer.
12. A dragonfly lives for 24 hours.

Key Article Words in English

way too busy = příliš zaneprázdněný
oversee = dohlížet na
we must empower people = musíme podpořit lidi
grow and expand = růst a rozvíjet se
growing pains = potíže růstu
the easiest to remember = nejlehčí k zapamatování
makers = tvůrci
almonds = mandle
peach = broskev
ostrich’s eye = pštrosí oči
striped skin and striped fur = pruhovaná kůže a pruhovaná srst
pearls = perly
dragonfly = vážka

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